Contact and joining
Synonyms for roll
Synonyms for roll: wind and drift. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for roll
Interchangeable with roll in this sense
Audited under roll's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one roll carries in that sense.
- windverb, in the sense "arrange or coil around"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name roll as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- driftdrift is a verb in the sense "move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment"
The first group is filed under roll's own sense. The second reaches roll from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
arrange or coil around
Roll your hair around your finger.
The true synonym
wind
Same sentence, swapped: Wind your hair around your finger.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- range
- wave
- unwind
Where roll turns up in the game
roll is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in five other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 5 puzzles where roll is the trap
- dartverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is bolt, in the sense "to move suddenly and quickly in a particular direction", and roll is on the board beside it.
- liftnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is raise, in the sense "the act of raising something", and roll is on the board beside it.
- crescentnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is sickle, in the sense "a curved shape that tapers to a point at each end, like the moon in its early phase", and roll is one of the three tiles that lose.
- registerverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is record, in the sense "be aware of", and roll is on the board beside it.
Play roll
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so roll reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other contact and joining words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. roll carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.